MUS M 402 1st Edition Lecture 11 Outline of Last Lecture I The Beethovenian Style continued II Symphony No 9 in D minor Outline of Current Lecture I After Beethoven Characteristics of Beethoven s music that have an incredible influence on what comes next II New Traditions of Romanticism Current Lecture I After Beethoven Characteristics of Beethoven s music that have an incredible influence on what comes next a At the end of Beethoven s music much had changed in the way of Music of the Western Art Tradition i Beethoven had accomplished so much in music that composers were forced to come up with a plan of where they could go from here b Beethoven s compositional style had been established an officially recognized as one of extremes i Extremes of largeness 1 Extremely large 2 Very long 3 Enormously large ensemble requirements 4 A feeling of hugeness ii Extremes of smallness iii Extremes of emotions iv Extremes of contrast v Beethoven commonly explored different dimensions of music but no matter what he explored it was be done intensely vi A type of Beethovenian narrative begins to carry over into over and switch into actually telling stories in program music vii Beethoven is also recognized for composing for dramatic effect viii Beethoven experiments with form 1 This influences romantic composers because they were impressed with Beethoven s ability to create spontaneous new forms and not just compose in the same forms that have been passed down throughout generations ix Beethoven establishes the idea of End Waiting the audience must wait until the end of the piece in order to fully understand it c New Traditions of Romanticism i Romanticism the idea of going after something that is bigger than oneself that could in fact destroy someone but that is so intriguing because it is unknown 1 The attractions to the strange the grotesque Victorian Gothic ii Throughout this time in a period of social and political conservatism composers experience a moment of cultural radicalism iii Changes in genre getting away from set genres and focusing on real expression instead of formal conventions
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